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Android tip: Use GMail filters & labels to keep your inbox clean!

One problem you might find if you send all your e-mail to your phone is that you’re constantly getting the “new e-mail” notification, and that means it becomes sort of useless, and you’ll begin to ignore your inbox (again). The … Continue reading

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Android tip: Manage your contacts online via your Google account

When you activated your Android phone, you had to provide a “Google Account” to sync it to.  Generally, this is an @gmail.com address, but could actually be any google-provided account, for example, if you use Google Apps for your Domain, … Continue reading

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Archiving GMail without using fetchmail

Thanks Paul and Greg for the advice on backing up my GMail account.  Although fetchmail seems to work for some users, there are a couple of easier to use scripts out there. Paul pointed me at Matt Cutts’ great blog … Continue reading

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Archiving your Google Apps for your domain mail.

There are many guides to using fetchmail to backup your gmail account, but I use Google Apps For Your Domain to host my mail.  So, I needed to craft up a slightly modified version of the fetchmail commandline: $ fetchmail … Continue reading

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